TWO
DEFENDANTS CHARGED IN A 34 YEAR OLD RACIALLY CHARGED
MURDER CASE IN GRIFFIN WERE BOUND OVER TO THE SPALDING
COUNTY GRAND JURY ON MURDER CHARGES—THURSDAY—FRANK GEBHARDT
AND WILLIAM MOORE SR.
THE
VICTIM—TIMOTHY COGGINS WAS STABBED TO DEATH AND HIS BODY
DRAGGED BEHIND A TRUCK WITH A LOGGING CHAIN IN SPALDING
COUNTY IN 1963. THE MURDER CASE WENT COLD FOR DECADES
UNTIL OCTOBER WHEN NEW WITNESSES CAME FOWARD—A MURDER
COMMITTED ALLEGEDLY BECAUSE COGGINS, A BLACK MAN, WAS
SOCIALIZING WITH A WHITE WOMAN.
GRIFFIN
CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY BEN COKER CALLED ONLY ONE WITNESS
DURING THE PRELIMINARY HEARING BEFORE SPALDING COUNTY CHIEF
MAGISTRATE JUDGE RITA CAVANAUGH---GBI SPECIAL AGENT JARED
COLEMAN WHO TESTIFIED THEY HAD BRAGGED ABOUT THE MURDER FOR
YEARS.
D.A.
COKER SAID GEBHARDT AND MOORE COULD GO TO TRIAL IN THE
SUMMER OF 2018.
THREE
OTHERS WERE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CRIME—GREGORY
HUFFMAN,LAMAR BUNN AND HIS MOTHER SANDRA BUNN.
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